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A. J. GOOSTREE. APPLIANCE FOR CONTROLLING AND PREVENTING FIRE INBUILDINGS.

No. 410,359. Patented Sept. 3, 1889.

WITNESSES: INVE ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREIV J. GOOSTREE, OF FOXVILLE, ILLINOIS.

APPLIANCE FOR CONTROLLING AND PREVENTING FIRE IN BUILDINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 410,359, datedSeptember 3, 1889. Application filed May 1, 1888. Serial No. 272,607.(No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, ANDREW J. Goos'rEEE, of Foxville, in the county ofMarion and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Appliances for Controlling and Preventing Fires inBuildings, of which the following is a specification.

Thisinvention has in view to provide new and useful improvements infire-extinguishers, having for its object, more especially, to utilizethe principle or method of cutting off or excluding drafts or currentsof air from the flames within a burning building or vessel in order toextinguish the same.

The invention consists of the particular construction and arrangement ofparts, as hereinafter f ullyset fortluand pointed out in the claim.

I11 the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of abuilding having my improvement applied. Fig. 2 is a detailed plan viewshowing one of the pulleys, its support, and a blind or shutter with itsclosing line or wire; and Fig. is a detail perspective View showing thehinge and spring on an enlarged scale.

In carrying out my invention I apply to a building, upon the outside,shutters A for closing the window-openings, and to outside door-openingsI apply auxiliary or supplementary doors A, the said doors openingoutward, as clearly shown in the drawings.

In order to render the shutters and doors air-tight, or practically so,they are provided around their margins with cushions or strips of rubbera a to exclude drafts or currents of air from the building, thussuppressing the flames and finally extinguishing the same in case of thetakingfire of the building. These shutters and doors have connected toeach of them a wire or line I), which is carried or extended through orover frames or pulleys c c and eye-brackets or supports 0 0, arrangedupon and applied to the outside of the building. It may be as shown.Each wire or line I) is finally passed through or over a frame or pulley(I, also applied to the outside of the building, it thence extendingdown within convenient reach for manipulation and having its free endprovided With a tab 0, which in practice may be so marked or designatedas to identify its connection with its respect ive shutteror door. Theclosing of the shutters and doors is rendered more effective by theaction of springs g g, so as to act upon the same. The shutters anddoors are held open against the action of the springs by the hinges,which have the ordinary inclines.

In operation by pulling or drawing upon the wires or lines I) b at theirouter tabbed ends the shutters and outside doors can be readily andquickly closed, thus cutting off or excluding, as above described, theair currents or drafts from the building, as is resorted to in the eventof the same taking fire, and whereby the flames would be suppressed andfinally extinguished. The shutters and doors aforesaid may, it isapparent, be disposed upon Ihe inside of the building.

It is also obvious that my invention is readily applicable to vessels,since with the shutters applied to the windows or other similar openingstherein, and with the use of the same arrangement of wires or lines,pulleys, &c., the air currents or drafts can be excluded or shut out,and thus in case of the taking fire of the vessel get the flames undercontrol and finally extinguish the same.

I'Iaving thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of a structure having outwardswinging closures normallyheld open, a spring connected to the structure at the hinged edge ofeach closure and connected to the closure at or near its outer or freeec ge, said closure opening against the tension of the springs, aseparate Wire or cable connected to each closure beyond its hinged edge,cords or cables being grouped at their depending ends at a suitablepoint on the outside of the structure, substantially as set forth.

ANDRE\V J. GOOSTREE.

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SAMUEL KEELER, Jixs. W. GOOSTREE.

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